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Re: Queries of my Cam

Hi, I'm using Fujifilm S2000HD. If imma not wrong it is a semi-pro cam. Is there any way to have control the shutter speed ??? Cause i just can't find a way to control it.

Thanks
NewBie

hint: u can control the shutter speed via the S or M mode ............ you cannot control it or you dont know WHY it should be controlled ?

Do you have ditto question on aperture too ?

Might as well kill 2 birds with one stone

Look above at the stickie threads.......... there are already existing info on what both are and how to use them

People here are very nice here.......... generally ........... they will make an effort to help..... but put in some share of effort on your part too so that genuine advise and assistance will be easier forthcoming from them

If you put in some effort reading up and playing around or experimenting .......... AT LEAST when they start giving you their opinions, you will hopefully be communicating along near-similar frequency ......... otherwise what they say is going to sound VERY French and foreign to you.........

Re: Queries of my Cam

Well, just to share with all my experience.

Last time I read the manual for my Nikon D300 and more than half the time I don't understand what it is talking about.

In shutter or manual mode, sometimes I can turn the dial (if that is the correct term) and the shutter speed will change and sometimes even I turn the dial, the shutter speed don't change at all. I learn from trial and error that you must half-press the trigger in order for the dial to respond. I wonder if this is written in my Nikon D300 manual??? Can those who likes to read manual and always tell people to read manual confirm this?

I say all these to tell the TS to play around with your settings. Sometimes, some things may not be in the manual. What is the worse that can happen? Ditch your camera and switch to Nikon. I can personally go down and teach you how to change the shutter speed.

Re: Queries of my Cam

Originally Posted by shelomoh

Well, just to share with all my experience.

Last time I read the manual for my Nikon D300 and more than half the time I don't understand what it is talking about.

In shutter or manual mode, sometimes I can turn the dial (if that is the correct term) and the shutter speed will change and sometimes even I turn the dial, the shutter speed don't change at all. I learn from trial and error that you must half-press the trigger in order for the dial to respond. I wonder if this is written in my Nikon D300 manual??? Can those who likes to read manual and always tell people to read manual confirm this?

I say all these to tell the TS to play around with your settings. Sometimes, some things may not be in the manual. What is the worse that can happen? Ditch your camera and switch to Nikon. I can personally go down and teach you how to change the shutter speed.

I don't like to read manual. But I always tell people to read manual. But what is the right way to read manual? Read it from cover to cover like a novel? No ... You look up sections that you are not clear about. If you are not clear about using the Shutter priority mode, then read up shutter priority mode. Use the Index. Or use the diagram of the camera, you will see arrows with page references. THAT is how you read a manual.

When you turn the dial you are changing parameters. But which parameters are you changing? Which mode are you in? P, S, A, or M? And there are 2 dials. One in front where your index finger rest, and one at the back, there your thumb rests. Which one are you turning?

half press shutter means you activated the metering. And after a few seconds of inactivity on the shutter butter, the meter will go off. You need to half press the shutter again to activate the meter.

Please do not teach anyone how to change shutter speed. Seems like you do not know your basics well enough. Do not go out and teach other people the wrong things. Blind leading the blind and both will drop into longkang.